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Yasuhiko Kimura
The Transcendent Unity of Science, Art, and Spirituality
A Voices from the Edge presentation in Boston, MA
Yasuhiko Kimura makes you think. Literally. This corporate consultant and translator of mystical Chinese texts mixes an intriguing blend of Zen, the Socratic method, and cutting-edge evolution theory to stimulate your mind.
Marilyn Schlitz
Embracing the Mystery

Vice President for Research and Education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences Dr. Marilyn Schlitz tells tales from the lab guaranteed to amaze believers and skeptics alike...

Otto Scharmer
A New Social Technology for Transforming Capitalism and Deepening Democracy
a Voices from the Edge presentation recorded live at Foxhollow Forum, MA
Join Otto Scharmer, corporate consultant and MIT visiting professor, for a presentation on “presencing,” a truly innovative social technology for accessing our deepest capacity to sense and shape the future.
Peter Senge & Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Business of Changing the World
Best-selling authors Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline) and Jon Kabat-Zinn (Full Catastrophe Living) dialogue on the emerging integration of spirituality and business.
Fritzie P. Manuel
Does Humankind Dream of a Utopian Future?

WIE editors Jessica Roemischer and Ross Robertson speak with Fritizie P. Manuel: art historian, scholar, and co-author of Utopian Thought in the Western World, a definitive history of the human propensity to visualize and create the future.

Joseph Jaworski
Harnessing Group Intelligence

International business consultant Joseph Jaworski speaks with WIE’sElizabeth Debold about harnessing the power of group intelligence to transform business, civil society, and ultimately the world.

Otto Scharmer
Presencing: Human Potential and the Field of the Future
A Voices from the Edge presentation

Otto Scharmer presents his transformative social theory in which science, spirituality, and the intelligence of the collective conspire to create a more enlightened future.

Rupert Sheldrake
The Extended Mind
a Voices from the Edge presentation

Rupert Sheldrake, iconoclast, biologist, and author of The Sense of Being Stared At, brings his inquisitive, scientific mind to the exploration of intuition, precognition, and telepathy.

Roger Nelson
Science, Consciousness, and the Search for Reality

Roger Nelson, director of the Global Consciousness Project, speaks about his research aimed at proving that human consciousness intertwines, interacts, and ultimately exerts measurable force on the world around us–and why this holds the key to the next stage in human evolution.

Otto Scharmer
Presence of the Future
Can the intelligence of the collective mind envision—and therefore alter—the course of our unfolding future? Otto Scharmer thinks so.
Juanita Brown
Collective Dialogue, Collective Wisdom
Organizational innovator Juanita Brown illuminates the practice and potential of group dialogue
Tom Atlee
The Wisdom of the Whole
This passionate activist tells one astonishing story after another about the power of collectives.
Chris Bache
The Individual and Matrix Consciousness
Could our collective potential for learning be almost unlimited?
Chris Parish
Exploring the Landscape of a New Consciousness

Chris Parish speaks about his experiences facilitating “enlightened communication” groups, where individuals come together to explore—and literally co-create—the leading edge of consciousness.

Rupert Sheldrake
Flocks, Fields, Teams and Telepathy

The pioneering biologist uses birds in flight and the creative synergy of sports teams to illustrate how uncanny fields of interconnection are created.

Dr. Ervin Laszlo
The Conscious Universe
An intimate conversation with Ervin Laszlo
Ervin Laszlo's brilliant and original work in the fields of systems philosophy and general evolution theory have become the cornerstones of a new integral science of evolution, consciousness, and human development.
Howard Bloom
Osama, Michael Jackson, and Group IQ
a Voices from the Edge presentation in New York City

Join 3rd millenium renaissance man, genius raconteur, author, and former rock and roll starmaker Howard Bloom to find out what the American king of pop and the Saudi prince of jihad have to do with collective intelligence, Darwinian reproduction strategies, and the future of human culture.

Articles

Music Stirs More Masses Than You Think

From the Big Bang to Brahms, acoustic vibrations choreograph the movements of the cosmos.

Issue 27
Awakening the Double Wisdom of Civilization

How to awaken our collective consciousness through the power of mass communication.

Issue 27
The Higher We
Issue 26
A Kind of Innocence We'd Never Seen Before
When huge audiences voyage together through rock and roll heaven, where are they going, and what does it all mean?
Issue 25
Come Together: The Mystery of Collective Intelligence

Is it possible for groups to access a level of wisdom far beyond what is available to individuals? WIE takes an in-depth look at the miraculous phenomenon of collective consciousness that many feel is the next step in human evolution.

Issue 25
Our Collective Awakening and the Politics of Consciousness

According to evolutionary activist Duane Elgin, the most vital determining factor in our collective awakening is not mystical experience . . . it’s television.

Issue 25
Following the Grain of the Kosmos
States, stages, selves, and the directionality of development

Wilber and Cohen exchange their understandings of how the developmental trajectory unfolds. They discuss the evolutionary impulse, what it is and why it’s significant, and differentiate between stages and states of consciousness.

Issue 25
The New Enlightenment
Enlightenment for the Twenty-First Century
Issue 25
The Science Of Collective Consciousness

More and more people are talking about this phenomenon but is there any scientific research to back it up?

Issue 25
Exploring the Future of Religion
The Guru and the Pandit

What would “spirituality appropriate” to our rapidly evolving times look like? Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen consider new religious structures and the potential they have for bringing people together in a context that transcends the individual.

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